Warlord's Puzzle by Virginia Walton Pilegard
	List Price:   $15.95 Unit Price:   $12.76 You Save:   $3.19 (20%) ISBN-10:   1565544951 ISBN-13:   9781565544956 Publisher:   Pelican Publishing Series:   Warlord's Ser. Category:   Picture Books, Math Books Pub. Date:   February 2000 Pages:   32 Format:   Trade Cloth Ages:   4 to 9 Grades:   ps to 4
Subjects
CHILDREN'S FICTION
Description/Notes
A young peasant boy convinces his poor but wise father to enter a contest to solve the warlord's puzzle, which is actually the original tangram. Author Virginia Walton Pilegard created 'The Warlord's Puzzle' to use informal geometry to strengthen children's visual learning. In China, a beautiful ceramic tile lies shattered on the ground, and the artist who dropped it is sentenced to the land's worst punishment. The fierce warlord will execute the artist unless some wise person can put the seven pieces back together. That person will then be invited to live in the castle. Both locals and strangers from far away wait their turns for a chance to solve the warlord's puzzle. After learning why these people are waiting to enter the castle, a peasant boy convinces his poor but wise father to join the line. This little boy starts them off on the first step to solving the puzzle-entering the contest. Hoping to avoid punishment for breaking a beautiful tile that was his gift to a Chinese warlord, an artist suggests that the warlord hold a contest to see if anyone can mend it. A handsome tile given to a Chinese warlord is broken into various geometric shapes & only a simple peasant can solve the puzzle & put it together again. One of the most impressive features of the Golden Age pageants was the elaborate and fanciful costumes worn by the krewe members on the floats. Beginning with the first tableaux and pageant balls of the Twelfth Night Revelers, Rex, and the Knights of Momus, Golden Age costume design was a tremendous spectacle of whimsy, mythology, and satire. Costumes included an extraordinary array of creatures: demons, fairies, magicians, animals and vegetables real and imagined, and a host of others.